Word: instinct
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...psychology, Professor Wayland F. Vaughn, of Boston University, will discuss elementary features of this subject, including the nervous system, tendencies, instinct, and habit, memory, thinking and mental conflict. The class will meet Monday and Thursday evenings 7:30 to 9 o'clock at Emerson Hall...
...spoke in tribute to his successful rival. Franklin Roosevelt actually did not appear in person but Vice President Garner, wise, red-faced old man of the Senate, read the President's eulogy of the new Leader, a letter ending with the felicitous phrase: "He knows by sound instinct that on occasion party harmony is aided and abetted by close harmony...
Attacks on humans by U. S. screech owls are not uncommon. Persons who have had the experience know it is indescribably frightening. The birds have a fiercely protective instinct for their young and the onslaughts usually occur when the young are learning to fly. Some years ago a report in a scientific journal of an attack brought out dozens of letters from Oregon to Ontario to Texas recording similar episodes. One Louisiana Negro was said to have lost an eye. Policemen walking lonely beats are frequent victims...
Sample guides for girls: A woman is no less rash than a man if she marries before she has sown her wild oats. Sowing season: ten to 15 years, beginning at the age of 15. Purpose: to exhaust the "polygamous instinct." which is probably stronger in women than men. Harmony in marriage depends on "bodily adaptation," which depends on the sexual tact of the husband, which depends on his premarriage initiation, which is usually bad. To end this vicious circle, let girls of good will turn teachers. "You must finish with love before you become good, unless you want love...
...brushed aside a tousled, screeching head bent upon chalking the sidewalk, the Vagabond observed to himself how Byron Piccup had made into a college-worthy art are what most men had always considered an instinct...